VP, Clinical Lines of Business

Summa Health; Akron (OH); On-site; USD 203,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay and benefits

Executive leadership exposure

Professional development

Job summary

Summa Health in Akron seeks a visionary executive to lead the Clinical Lines of Business, directing strategy, clinical integration, and financial performance across inpatient, ambulatory, virtual, and post-acute settings.

The VP will partner with medical leadership, optimize access and care transitions, and drive technology-enabled improvements to patient experience and outcomes. A seasoned leader with healthcare operations background is essential.

Qualifications

• Ten years of increasing healthcare leadership experience in operations and strategy.
• Demonstrated success in performance improvement and business development.
• Experience partnering with clinical leadership strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute a unified clinical and operational strategy across all four Clinical Lines of Business, aligned with Summa Health's IHS vision and enterprise priorities.
• Lead appropriate IHS operational meetings as the integrating executive - translating enterprise strategy into line-level priorities and ensuring cross-line alignment.
• Drive consumer-focused transformation, including access strategy, referral pathway design, digital navigation, and always-on engagement across care settings.
• Oversee the development and refinement of evidence-based pathways, care models, and low-cost/high-quality programs that advance population health outcomes.

Skills

Healthcare leadership

Strategic planning

Change management

Communication

AI-driven solutions

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA / MHA / Master’s

Job description

Vice President, Clinical Lines of Business

Summa Health System is recognized as one of the region's top employers by a number of third party organizations, including NorthCoast 99. Exceptional candidates gravitate to Summa because of its culture, passion for delivering excellent service to our patients and families commitment to our philosophy of servant leadership, collegial working relationships at every level of the organization and competitive pay and benefits.

Summary

The VP, Clinical Lines of Business is Summa Health's lead executive accountable for the strategy, clinical integration, operations, consumer experience, and financial performance of all four Clinical Lines of Business within the Integrated Health Services (IHS) model. This role provides unified executive leadership across a broad, complex clinical portfolio - inclusive of all of the system's service lines and medical group practice operations - and ensures that each line delivers a coordinated, consumer-centered experience across inpatient, ambulatory, virtual, and post-acute settings.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Integration
  • Set and execute a unified clinical and operational strategy across all four Clinical Lines of Business, aligned with Summa Health's IHS vision and enterprise priorities.
  • Lead appropriate IHS operational meetings as the integrating executive - translating enterprise strategy into line-level priorities and ensuring cross-line alignment.
  • Drive consumer-focused transformation, including access strategy, referral pathway design, digital navigation, and always-on engagement across care settings.
• Clinical & Operational Excellence
  • Oversee the development and refinement of evidence-based pathways, care models, and low-cost/high-quality programs that advance population health outcomes.
  • Champion technology enablement - remote monitoring, clinical decision support, digital care redesign, and innovation partnerships - to advance outcomes and experience.
  • Optimize site-of-care decisions, access/capacity management, scheduling efficiency, and transitions across inpatient, ambulatory, and post-acute environments.
• People Leadership & Dyad Management
  • Lead, develop, and support four Medical Director / Administrative Head dyads - building a high-performing, accountable leadership team across the portfolio.
  • Shape physician leadership structures within each line as the IHS model matures, ensuring clear reporting lines for all employed providers.
  • Represent the lines of business in executive and enterprise forums, including the IHS-Acute interface.
• Financial Stewardship & Performance
  • Hold executive accountability for operating and capital budget performance, growth strategies, and efficient resource utilization.
  • Leverage the Service Line Command Center and IHS performance dashboards to monitor, interpret, and act on financial and clinical performance data.
  • Guide prioritization of technology, workforce, and programmatic investments across the portfolio; evaluate and scale innovations that advance both outcomes and efficiency.

Core Leadership Expectations

• Win as One Summa Align teams around shared goals; resolve cross-functional issues; model enterprise thinking and organizational stewardship.
• Deliver the Future Anticipate capability needs; develop leaders and teams; sponsor improvement and innovation.
• Create Clarity and Trust Set clear priorities and expectations; foster psychological safety; lead with consistency, transparency, and fairness.
• Own the Results Establish aligned goals and measures; use data to identify gaps; hold self and others accountable for meaningful outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Formal Education Required:
   • Bachelor's Degree
   • MBA, MHA or Master's in a related field
2. Knowledge and Experience Required:
   • Ten (10) years of increasing healthcare leadership experience in operations and strategy, including health system, hospital, medical group, and/or consulting roles
   • Demonstrated success in performance improvement and business development
   • Experience partnering with clinical leadership strongly preferred
3. Other Skills, Competencies and Qualifications:
   • Forward-looking view of consumer engagement, embracing technology and AI-driven solutions
   • Strong communication and employee/clinician engagement skills
   • Experience leading leaders, supporting multiple functions simultaneously, solving complex problems, and demonstrating results
   • Strategic and businesses planning expertise, bringing together functions from HR, Recruitment, Operations, Marketing, Finance, IT, etc.
   • Experience overseeing large operational and capital budgets, with experience in medical group operations a plus
4. Level of Physical Demands:
   • Sedentary: Exerts up to ten pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Salary

$147.26/hr - $220.92/hr

Benefits

• Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Supplemental Life and AD&D
• Dependent Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts - Healthcare and Dependent Care
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Identity Theft Protection

  Location

  1077 Gorge Blvd., Akron, Ohio

  Employment Type

  Regular Employee